jfitch wrote:
I don't get it either, since once you have the tail number or contest
number (or IACO number) the owner at least is a very simple public
database lookup. That isn't necessarily the pilot, but in gliders it is a
very high correlation.

This is mostly a German privacy thing. Over there they don't have a
publicly available registration DB. German privacy law is way more strict
than anything here in the US

Pete